Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

But, as the two Nature studies show, we can relate a specific meteorite type to its specific source asteroid in the main belt. The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types ...

Initial analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite found that it was a very rare type of space rock called carbonaceous chondrite, which formed in the earliest periods of our solar system. While there ...

His analysis revealed that the freshly-dubbed Charlottetown Meteorite, a common type of chondrite, possessed distinctive attributes that elucidate why it disintegrated upon contact with terra firma.

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

The Museum's fragment of Ivuna, an extremely rare form of chondrite meteorite 'It's really important now. Next year, NASA has a mission going to a very dark, primitive asteroid. And JAXA, the Japanese ...

Analysis shows that the newly-named Charlottetown Meteorite is an ordinary chondrite with features that help to explain why it broke apart as it hit the ground. “As the first and only meteorite ...

“We think that Earth mostly accreted from enstatite chondrite-like materials,” Barnes says. Until recently enstatite meteorites were considered too dry to have supplied Earth’s wate ...

A REPORT of the discovery of olivine in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite 1 aroused considerable scepticism 2,3. The identification was based on selected area electron diffraction patterns ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe these were the very first things to become solids after the sun was first formed.